Interesting elsewhere – 16 September 2016
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web
Extrapolating the future
It’s easy to think that the future has run out of surprises, but there is little sign that it has. People have been predicting better predictions over the thousands of years since the prediction business got underway. Simple extrapolation is rarely the smartest move.
Interesting elsewhere – 8 July 2016
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web
A walk in the park
The more the working environment of government is impermeable and inflexible, the more that will influence the wider culture and the harder it will be to develop the civil service we need for a twenty-first century world.
Putting the transformation into digital
Digital transformation is important. But it’s important because digital is a means of doing transformation, not because transformation enables digital.
Interesting elsewhere – 27 May 2016
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web
The naming of parts
There have been months of roadworks. A complex junction has been remodelled to be friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists. The traffic has been rerouted this weekend, though there is still a lot of work to do to turn the old carriageway into the pleasant space envisaged by TfL’s artist (and nor do the fluffy white clouds and blue sky appear to be fully functioning yet).
A short seminar on leadership
It can be easy to confuse leadership with charisma. Charisma may for some leaders be some part of how they do leadership. But for most leaders, most of the time, it’s about keeping the plates spinning.
Eternity is very short
What have we to say to the inhabitants of Finland four thousand generations into the future, and how on earth might we expect them to understand us?
Joining the docs
A lot of time and energy has gone into thinking about how text-based information should be structured and organised at the technical level. That’s not a bad thing, but risks giving too little attention to the fact that a vital reason for storing information is to be able to find it and use it – and to connect it with related information.